CP&L Says Largest Plant Has Already Been Rolled Forward

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CP&L says its Roxboro generation plant (at over 2,000 megawatts, the largest in CP&L's system) has already been rolled forward and is operating in a virtual post-rollover environment. It claims that other plants will be rolled-over in 1999. It says the Brunswick nuclear facility has not yet been remediated, but will be during a planned maintenance shutdown this fall.

I have been unable to get information from oil companies showing persuasive evidence of ability to supply either crude or refined product to end users.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999

Answers

Thanks Pt.

In this instance I take CP&L to be Carolina Power and Light rather than Connecticut Power and Light.

Jerry

-- Jerry B (skeptic76@erols.com), July 30, 1999.


Right. Roxboro is in NC near the Virginia line and Brunswick is south of Wilmington.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999.

CG&E (Cincinnati) has also moved a few plants into the new year already. good idea.

-- Eric (ericnamy@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.

Eric, where did you get this info on CG&E? Does this mean we can breathe a little easier about electricity in Cincinnati? --meeko

-- meeko (meeeko@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999.

Meeko,It's on their web site. I think its WWW.cinergy.com. http://www.cinergy.com/section_frames.asp?Section_ID=21 This is the text of what's there. Pictured here are Cinergy's generating stations, all of whose units have had their internal clocks reset. In 1998, engineers began resetting their operational clocks as part of the Cinergy Year 2000 Readiness Program. Some units were set ahead when they were down for scheduled maintenance and were brought back into service with clocks set beyond the Year 2000. Others were set ahead to late 1999 and allowed to "roll past" the Year 2000 while in full operation. All have come through the process smoothly, without operational mishaps. It has proved to be a good test of the Cinergy Year 2000 Readiness Program. If this is the case I guess we're in good shape around here.

-- eric (ericnamy@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.


Thanks for the link, Eric. --Meeko

-- meeko (meeeko@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999.

I will have the opportunity to have a face-to-face with some senior operations staff members from the Roxboro (actually Hyco) Plant sometime in the next week. I'm interested to see if this includes remediation of all the embedded systems in all four generating units. Or did they only roll-forward those systems with user interfaces and are they now hoping for the best when it comes to the no-operator interface equipped devices?

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), July 30, 1999.


Wildweasel, I'd appreciate an e-mail after you have that face-to-face.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999.

Setting the clocks forward just ain't the same as seeing how things actually work after January 1, 2000. It's a simulated environment, not a real one. Also, what about the embedded systems whose clocks cannot be set forward?

-- cody varian (cody@y2ksurvive.com), July 30, 1999.

Cody said: "Setting the clocks forward just ain't the same as seeing how things actually work after January 1, 2000. It's a simulated environment, not a real one." Right Cody, it's not the same as the equipment passing through the actual space/time continuim, is it? lol....

"Also, what about the embedded systems whose clocks cannot be set forward?" Then they wouldn't have any dates then, now would they...sorry Cody, this is another myth, see the 3COM FAQ

-- cody varian (cody@y2ksurvive.com), July 30, 1999.

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), July 31, 1999.



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